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Sleeping in the heat

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Sleeping in the heat

We’re just not used to hot weather in the UK so when we get a sudden heatwave our body struggles to cope with it, especially sleeping. In countries that have more heat than we do they have air conditioning but it would be used so rarely here that the vast majority of us don’t have it. So what can we do to help us sleep in the hot weather?

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We're having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave

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We're having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave

With a lot of lupus patients this sunny weather will be causing dreadful problems as light sensitivity is a common symptom of lupus. Some patients have actually traced the start of their lupus back to a holiday in a hot country, so sunlight can actually sometimes actually trigger lupus.